Thursday 11th - Sunday 14th
September 2025
Programme/Clár 2024
Thursday 5th September
Matt Molloy's Yard Bar
. 8.30 - 9.30pm
A coming together of musical worlds: Contemporary Irish traditional music with classical overtones.
Moynihan (voice, violin, uilleann pipes & guitar)
Tickets: €10
Friday 6th September
Westport House
Wine Reception (with a complimentary wine/soft drink)
. 7.00pm
Opening Chamber Music Concert
. 8 - 10pm
Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin K. 304
Hugh Tinney (piano) and Sophia Jaffé (violin)
Schubert: Impromptu D935, No.3 in Bb Major
Leon McCawley (piano)
Richard Dubugnon: La Minute Exquise
Wu Qian (piano) and Mia Cooper (violin)
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes
Sitkovetsky Trio with Mia Cooper (violin), Sarah McElravy (viola) and José-Franch-Ballester (clarinet)
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major
Simply Quartet with Leon McCawley (piano)
Tickets: €60
Saturday 7th September
Westport Town Hall Theatre
. 11am - 12pm
Next Generation Artists: Sonic Quartet featuring undergraduate students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music
Puccini - Crisantemi
Philip Glass - String Quartet No. 2 ‘Company’
Prokofiev - String Quartet No. 2 'Kabardinian'
Tickets: €15. Free Admission for Students & Under 18's
Matt Molloy's Yard Bar
. 2 - 3pm
Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello. Showcasing a selection from this unique work, this performance also features a conversation with festival Artistic Director, Catherine Leonard.
Isang Enders (cello) and Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin)
Free Admission
Westport Town Hall Theatre
. 6 - 6.30pm
Concert from the Balcony: José Franch-Ballester (clarinet)
A return for our popular outdoor concert from the balcony of The Town Hall Theatre.
Free Admission
. 7.30 - 9.30pm
Richard Dubugnon: Mikroncerto, op. 37 for Oboe d’Amore, Basset Clarinet and Piano
Jose Franch-Ballester (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Leon McCawley (piano)
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata, opus 19
Hugh Tinney (piano) and Guy Johnston (cello)
Intermission
Brahms: Piano Quartet no. 2 in A Major
Wu Qian (piano), Sophia Jaffé (violin), Sarah McElravy (viola) and Guy Johnston (cello)
Tickets: €30
. 10.00 - 10.40pm
Thea Musgrave: Niobe (1987)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe and tape recorder)
Beethoven: Piano Trio no. 5 in D Major "Ghost"
Sitkovetsky Trio
Tickets: €10. Free Admission for Students & Under 18's
Sunday 8th September
Westport House
. 11.30am - 12.30pm
Wynton Marsalis: Creole Contradanzas, Blue Lights on the Bayou, Hellbound Highball from String Quartet No. 1 “At the Octoroon Balls" (2005)
Simply Quartet
Mozart: Adagio K. 370
Simply Quartet with Nicholas Daniel (Cor Anglais)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135
Simply Quartet
Tickets: €20
Westport Town Hall Theatre
(Sean Staunton Suite)
. 2 - 3pm
Lecture: This year we continue our theme of investigating instruments and the materials used to make them. Nicholas Daniel will discuss the wood used in making oboes as well as issues concerning sustainability and agencies such as The Forestry Stewardship Council.
Free Admission
Holy Trinity Church
. 3.30 - 5.30pm
Bach: Selection from Goldberg Variations (arr. Sitkovetsky)
Isang Enders (cello), Mia Cooper (violin) and Sarah McElravy (viola)
Erwin Schulhof: Duo for Violin and Cello
Sophia Jaffé (violin) and Guy Johnston (cello)
Erik Satie: A New Satiesfaction from the Gymnopedie (arr. Stephen Koncz)
Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Sarah McElravy (viola), Isang Enders (cello) and Sophia Jaffé (violin)
Intermission
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K. 581
Simply Quartet and José Franch-Ballester (clarinet)
Tickets: €25